El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 65, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1893 Page: 5 of 8
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,F IN WALL, 8TREET, IT MAY NO
MEAN THAT HE FEELS SAFE
# Tyfr.eul g< <;ne In One of the Well Know
•‘Mankern and Broken*” OttivcH Wit
Which the Money Center of the Metrop
oils Ik Crowded—Currying Favor.
In the interval between the mornin
and afternoon sessions of the Stock Ex
change the speculators and operators sa *
in the broker’s office studying the ques-
tions as they had been marked up on the
blackboard by a junior clerk. They spoke
l>ut little. Some were making mental
calculations, some were building air
castles, a few were hugging themselves
with delight because fortune was in their
favor, and others looked grim and en-
deavored to conceal their chagrin and
regrets at losses by the operations of the
morning. Not a few were wrestling
with Bassanio’s problem, considering
whether another arrow would discover
that already lost. „ In gambling the hope
that another fling at fortune will bring
her down never fades. But those who
gamble daily recognize tliat such reason-
ing is not sound, and where, as in Wall
street, all the investments are based upon
theorizing as to cause and effect, some-
thing more than unreasoning faith in
fortune’s favor is necessary to open the
purse strings of its followers. These men
were veterans, and the gambler’s passion
was subordinated to cold calculations.
An old but gay and sprightly man
came upon the scene. He was the pro-
prietor of the office, a big broker, widely
known and very popular. He was r<>
puted to be the possessor of great wealth.
Upon his favor depended the fortunes of
some of the men in the chairs. Should
he withdraw it at a critical moment they
might sink out of sight overwhelmed by
ruin, wrecks to be pointed out by the
curious in after days as some of the “has
betas” of Wall street. He addressed them
on the subject of gold shipments, argu-
ing from his own view points as to their
, effects upon the prosperity of the com-
munity. Ho had the manners and voice
of a stump speaker. He interlarded his
remarks with jokes and reminiscences
and talked volubly; A handsomo gray
haired man, with smooth face and erect
figure, watched him and the others close-
ly. When the broker had finished and
disappeared into his private office, this
man said quietly to the friend, a visitor,
who sat beside him :
“I know now just about how all of
these men stand. Did you observe them
while Jones was talking? Did you no-
tice how some of them laughed loudly at
his jokes, while otters only smiled, and
still others remained impassive? Did you
see how those who laughed loudest strove
to catch his eye, as though to say: ‘See
me; I appreciate your humor; I am im
pressed with your remarks. The others
here may not follow you, but I am all
ears.’ And the meaning of all that is
that they want to curry favor with him
and win his personal good will, so as to
bank against it should they need his
financial assistance.
“I always pay attention to the crowd
when he talks, for by observing them I
can tell how much margin each is trad-
ing on. The man who laughs loudest
and is most obsequious is very close to
sinking. He fears he may go under any
moment, and bis laughter is a desperate
appeal to save him. It rings in my ears
like the cry of the drowning wretch who
yells: ‘Save me! Save me!’ I can al
most see him struggling in the waves
and tearing bis finger nails on the glassy
sides of the rocks against which he is
dashed in his attempts to pull himself
into safety. Every time that man roars
at one of Jones' jokes, and holds his
t sides as though they would split, I feel a
* throb of sympathy for him, for I know
his case is very desperate. The man who
laughs moderately, looks knowing and
has a fairly contented expression has a
fair margirvup and feels safe. But the
man who looks at Jones with an air of
indifference or has the courage to frown
upon him is the object of my deepest
envy. That man reposes on a financial
rock so high and solid that an earth-
quake would recoil from it. And, de-
pend upon it, every other man in this
place envies him too. If they dared, they
would stroke his coat and rub shoulders
with him in the hope of gaining luck
thereby.
“I will never forget the sensation
caused once by a man getting up here
and calling Jones loudly by his first
name. That ‘William’ still rings in my
ears. There was dead silence for fully a
minute after it had been uttered. Every
one of ns expected to see the rash man
struck by a thunderbolt or consumed by
the withering scorn of Jones’ lightning
glance. I felt my blood congeal with
horror, and several of the others told me
afterward that they looked for some-
thing awful. But Jones looked as sweet
as an angel, and we all could have wor-
shiped the daring one on the spot. He
received a dozen invitations to drink
within 10 minutes and was overwhelmed
with offers of cigars. His margin, I after-
ward discovered, was 10 percent. There
is a report that another man called Jones
Bill some years ago, but I don’t believe
it. If anybody did that, it was an out-
sider. No customer with a proper con-
sideration of the pt ssibilities of the fu-
ture could so far forget himself, even
though liia immediate conditions wise
most nroeperous."—New York Sun.
}»dl*or!raimit« Giving.
It Is all very well to preach against in-
discriminate charity, and to those who
are inclined to benevolence the lesson is
most valuable. There is too much care-
less giving, for charity no doubt often
breeds mendicancy, aud if there is to be
giving it ought to be thoughtful, to the
end that It may do good and not evil.
Besides the charitably disposed, how-
ever, are those who are careless of the
misfortunes of their neighbors and
those wl. >se selfishness is rarely tempt-
ed to mn :e a sacrifice for the happiness
of their kind.
When such as these do a chanty they
eiciaries, and it is
are the important bem
to them that the divine precept concern-
ing the blessedness of giving applies. It
matters little whether these give with
discrimination or indiscrimination; their
gifts are so few that they cannot work
much harm. If the encouragement of
begging depended on the occasionally
and spasmodically generous, the trade
would assuredly die out. It is well not
to preach the 'cold troth to them, for
they need little enough excuse for but-
toning up their pockets. Let them open
their hearts when they will, thoughtless-
ly or not, as it may chance. What good
is done by them’will be chiefly to them-
selves, and they will always, for a time
at least, be the better for their improved
opportunities.—Harper’s Weekly.
Listen, my masters. I speak naught but truth.
From dawn to ilaWn they drifted on and on.
Not knowing whither or to what dark end.
Now the north froze them, now the hot south
scorched.
Some culled to God and found great comfort so.
Some gnashed their teeth with curses, and some
laughed
An empty laughter seeing that they lived.
Bo sweet was hruuth between their foolish lips.
Day after day the same relentless sun:
Night after night the same unpltying stars.
At intervals tierce lightnings tore the clouds,
Showing vast, hollow spaces, and the sleet
Hissed, and the torrents of the sky were loosed.
From time to time a hand relaxed its grip.
Ami some pale wretch slid down into the dark
With stifled moan, and transient horror seized
The rest who wuited, knowing what must be.
At every turn si range shapes reached up und
clutched
The whirling wreck, held on awhile, and then
Slipt hack again into that blackness whence
1 they came.
Ah. hapless folk, to be no tost and torn.
So rocked by hunger, fever. Are and wave,
And swept at last into the nameless void - t
Frail girls, strong men and mothers with their
baltes!
Women and Dogs, Etc.
In the late Montagu Williams’ ’book,
'Around London,” there is a striking
testimony to the truth of an old saying
concerning women. “If any one," said
Mr. Williams, “has doubts as to the
brutalities practiced on women by men,
let him visit the London hospital on a
Saturday night. Very terrible sights
will meet his eye. Sometimes as many
as twelve or fourteen women may be
seen seated in the receiving room wait-
ing for their bruised and bleeding faces
end bodies to be attended to. In nine
.uses out of ten the injuries have been
inflicted by brutal husbands. The nurses
tell me, however, that any remarks they
may make reflecting on the aggressors
are received with great indignation by
the wretched sufferers. They positively
will not hear a single word against the
cowardly ruffians.
“ ‘Sometimes, said a nurse to me,
when I have told a woman that her hrs-
band is a brute, she has drawn herse*,
up and replied: ‘You mind your own
business, miss. We find the rates and
taxes, and the likes of you are paid out
of ’em to wait on us.’ ”
Lecturing to Royal Children.
Of the first lesson given to the royal
children Mr. Hart says that when tbs
professor (Sir Riehard Owen) first ar-
rived at Windsor castle he inquires
where he Bhould hang up his diagrams,
as these lectures were to be given in the
white drawing room, the walls of which
were covered with white satin. The an-
swer was that he was to do exactly as he
pleased. The gentleman in waiting was
therefore of opinion that he should pin
the drawings upon the white satin hang-
ings, but this* the professor declined to
do, and thereupon requested to be led to
the laundry of the castle, to the blank
amazement of the official. When he ar-
rived there he picked out the largest
clotheshorse he could find, and, having
procured some green baize, rigged up an
impromptu stand, which showed off hit
diagrams to the best advantage.—Lon
don Globe.
Ab<l were none saved?
My masters, not a soul!
Oh. shipman, woeful, woeful is thy tale!
Our hearts are heavy, and our eyes are dimmed.
What ship is this that suffered sucii ill fate?
What ship, my masters? Know ye not?—the
World.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Harper’s.
Patents and What They Protect.
A business man in this city who is up
to his ears in the work necessary to
gather capital to float an enterprise, and
at the same time to keep information of
the nature of it away from busy rivals,
found time last week to say: “Did you
ever think that a patent does not patent
in this country? Well, it’s a fact. All
that the patent office does is to give you
a paper with some writing on it, but if
another man steals your idea and goes
to manufacturing your invention the
patent office will not lift a finger to pro-
tect you or to stand by its own decision.
The fact that you’ve got a patent is a
poirf in your favor, but you've got to
hire lawyers and fight the thief in the
courts, and if he can stand it to hire
lawyers longer than you can that settles
you, and you might as well make him a
present of your invention. There are lots
of men in the country who are getting
rich on the discoveries of other people.
All they had to do was to take ’em and
fight the real discoverers into poverty.
The patent office, to be respected and to
be of any use, ought to have the power
to cause the stealer of a patent to be sent
to prison.”—New York Sun.
People Who Dae the Telephone.
“Philadelphia,” said Dr. Plush, of the
Bell company, "runs higher than any
other city in the number of its telephone
calls. The service is increasing with
each year, and with each year is arriv-
ing nearer and nearer perfection. Up
to the present year we were frequently
put to considerable trouble and expense
•in repairing our lines after stormy
weather. Now, however, it is different.
We began to put our lines under ground
in October. 1801, and have almost com-
pleted the work. Storms and high winds
can do us but little harm now. No, we
keep no record of the number and vari-
ety of swear words uttered by impatient
subscribers, but I can safely say that
they are fewer now than in formei
years.”—Philadelphia Record.
A Gallant of tlio Old School.
On a Sixth avenue train the othereven-
ing an old man sat literally packed among
women. As tlio train approached the
Twenty-third street station he began to
button up his coat preparatory to leav
ing the car. He looked about grimly
among the clustered women till h*
caught sight of an elderly man stand-
ing with them. Reaching out at arm’s
length with his cane among the fur-
belows and feathers, he managed to
touch his fellow man on the elbow. The
other understood at once, and wedged
his way hack to the waiting seat. When
he was safely there the old man got up,
and, glaring defiantly at the baffled fair
ones, picked his way rheumatically out
of the train.—New York Times.
An EnterprUlug Burglar.
America is said to be the home of en-
terprise, but an English burglar has gone
a little ahead of anything that ever orig-
inated in.the Yankee mind. He conceived
the idea of increasing his receipts by fur-
nishing to a newspaper “beats” on ins
exploits. After each burglary he sent a
full account to the paper and collected
pay for the articles in the usual way.
The fact that he was finally detected and
Is -jw in jail does net detract from his
distinction as a man of resources,—
Bocnester Democrat and Chi'onicle,
Scotch Reticence.
A Scotch laborer was dying. He had
four little children. After lying silent
for awhile he said he would like to see
them, and the poor wife brought them
to the bedside. All he did was to take
each of the three elder children by the
hand and to say, “Gude day.”
Then he said to the youngest, a wee
thing 2 years old, “Will ye gie me a
bit kiss?”
The mother, lifting up the wondering
child, said, “Say ta-ta to your father.”
“Ta-ta,” said the little boy in a loud,
cheerful voice, and then ran out of
the cottage to play. The poor father
closed his eyes; the tears ran down his
cheeks, but he said no more. The abun-
dance of his heart choked bis utterance.
He was weary, too, and so glide day
was his only word of parting.—“Twen-
ty-five Years of St. Andrew’s.”
TL|e Montezurria
Las Vegas Hot Springs; N. M.
CLARK D. FROST, Manager.
This magnificent Wayside Inn is located in the Rocky Mountains 7000 (eel
above the sea level, on the Santa Fe Route.
A Modern Hotel, open all the year round, low weekly rates, dry, oool air, oon -
8tant sunshine, medicinal hot springs, hunting and fishing health and pleasure
You Should Visit •
Th.3 Land of Sunshine
About Talking Cattle.
You know the snperstition which
claims that cattle have the gift of speech
at midnight Christmas eve. A Schles-
wig story warns us to take such asser-
tions by faith rather than crave for
knowledge by sight. An unbelieving
farmer once hid himself in his barn and
heard one of his horses say to the other,
“Dit Jaer waet wy noch unser Buer los”
(We shall be rid of our master this year).
The prophecy so frightened the man that
he fell ill and died, and the.soothsaying
horse drew him to his grave.—Harper's
Bazar.
About Ignorance.
One speaker, referring to the prevalent
ignorance about common things, said
that he once saw u laborer digging flints
in the chalk and asked him if he thought
they grew.
“No," was the reply. "I don’t think
about it; I knows they do.”
“Then place a flint on your chimney
piece ami see how much it grows in a
twelvemonth.'’
“All right, sir, and do you do the same
with a tat-er and see how much that
grows.”—Youth’s Companion.
Tin- Linen Month.
January is known in Chicago as the
linen month. A newspaper of that city
states that this is because the housewife
then does most of her purchases for the
year, and not, as has been alleged, be-
cause the annual washing takes place in
that month.—Exchange,
A company has been organized at San
Antonio, Tex., to utilize the mesquite
bean. The chief object is to prepare the
bean so that a beverage resembling
coffee can be made from its decoction or
infusion.
The temple of the Sun, at Palmyra,
covered a square of 22 yards on each
6ide. It was approached by a magnifi-
cent avenue over half a mile long, in-
closed by rows of columns and statues.
The ordinary folding fan is said to
have been invented in Japan, in the sev-
enth century, by a native artist, who
derived the idea from the way in which
the bat closes its wings.
Excursion tickets on sale every day In the year. Write to G. T. Nicholson 1
general passenger aud ticket agent, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Topeka, Kansas, for a beautifully illustrated brochure, entitled
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE-’
Resident agent nt Santa Fa Route will qaote ticket rate s on application
Tie Mi-Lii'i Lai.
Extracts from toe Law Relative to toe
i
Dse ol toe Mails by Lottery
Companies.
No letter, postal card or circular concerning any lottery,so-called gift ooa
oern or other similar enterprise offering prizes dependent upon lot or ohanoe
(or concerning schemes devised for the purpose of obtaining money or property
under false pretenses), and no list of the drawings at any lottery or similar
scheme, and no lottery ticket or part thereof, and no check, draft, bill, money,
postal note, or money order, for the purchase of any ticket, tickets or parts
thereof and or an share or chance in any such lottery or gift enterprise,
shall be carried in t he mail or delivered at or through any postoffice or branch
thereof or by any letter carrier; nor shall any newspaper, circular, pamphlet
or publication of any kind containing any advertisement of any lottery or gift
enterprise of any kind offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance, or con-
taining any list of prizes awarded at the drawings of any Bach lottery or gift
enterprize,whether said list is of any part o- of all of the drawing be carried in
the mail or delivered by any postmaster or letter carrier.
The Postmaster General may, upon evidenoe satisfactory to him that any
person ot company is engaged in conducting any lottery, gift enterprise, or
soheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property, by
ot, o hanoe, or drawing* of any kind, or that any person or company is conduce
ng any other soheme or device for obtaining money or property of any kind
through the mails, by means of false or fraudulent, pretenses representations
or promises, instruct postmasters at any postofflee at which registered letters
arrive directed to any such person or company, whether such agent or repre-
sentative is acting as an individual or as a firm, bank, corporation or associa-
tion of any kind, to return all such registered letters to the postmaster at the
office at whioh they were originally mailed, with the word “Fraudulent’’,
plainly written or stamped upon the outside thereof; and all such letters so *e-
turned to snch postmasters shall be by them returned to the writers thereof,
under snoh regulations as the Postmaster General may prescribe. Bat nothing
oontained in this section shall be so oonstrued as to anthorizs any postmaster
other poerson to open a latter not addressed to thee .
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El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 65, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1893, newspaper, March 17, 1893; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth541794/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.